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This, as well as Ennio Morricone's The Trio. Both songs are just amazing and go along with their respective scenes so well. Ennio Morricone's music really makes The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly into the movie that it is. It's an amazing movie on its own, but Morricone's music puts it over the top.

We were at the Big 4 and Slayer just finished. My friend and I were talking about what they would open with... Battery? Hit the Lights? ... Talking about it like it was no big deal. The lights in the Bronx went dim. The video kicked on and Ecstasy of Gold started.

All of a sudden, my heart was fucking racing... "Holy shit, they're coming... Metallica... the guys who fucking wrote the first 4 Metallica albums are coming out... Holy Fucking Shit!!!" Thought I was gonna pee my pants. 4 clicks of the high hat and they jumped into Creeping Death. I was fucking awestruck.

EDIT: Similar experience the first time I saw Maiden (and the subsequent times I guess). The lights were dim and a space themed video was rolling. All of a sudden Adrian is out there digging into Wicker Man. Few seconds later the boys come running out and a few seconds after that, Bruce is up 3 ft over the speakers screaming into the mic. I felt like a 10 year old girl at a Jonas Bros show.

That game still ranks on my top 10 of all time. I fantasize about remaking it with modern graphics and gameplay UI.

The plot is gripping beyond anything I've played since. There are plenty of games with strong story lines and lovable characters, brilliant plot twists or just a great sense of humor. But the emotional weight of Homeworld always hit me harder. Beginning as the supreme accomplishment of an entire people, the unifying cause that ended all wars becomes the near total extinction of their race. Rescuing those frozen few floating in space as the planet burns in the background... I read the manual for this game just for fun, the back story (which wasn't included in the game at all) was more in depth than any game I've ever played.

It's such an epic story! Outcasts forget their origins, fight amongst themselves for survival, then find the ancient wreckage of their heritage. They are unified as a planet, all wars stop as they work together on the most ambitious project ever attempted, construction of a massive space vessel to carry them home.

Their first test jump into deep space is a disaster. They're attacked by an alien species they've never encountered before, without any warning or cause. The outcasts escape and return home, only to find their entire planet has been destroyed. Firestorms sweep the surface and all that remain of their people lie frozen in cryostasis orbiting the planet.

Then they meet those who attempted genocide. The remnants of the attacking fleet are firing upon the frozen few drifting in space. The outcasts manage to defeat their attackers, and capture some. They learn that 4000 years ago, a galactic empire had banished their people, and that by building hyperspace technology they had violated the terms of their banishment. The punishment for this was the extermination of their people.

Now, knowing that they are all that is left, the outcasts venture into space to find their home, and exact vengeance upon those who annihilated their civilization.

Also Barber's Cello concerto, second movement. Sadder than his Adagio for Strings, in my opinion. It's some heavy shit. not my favorite recording but just one i found on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNn1XlNg10k

I tried to learn how to play this on piano, without having taken lessons for 10+ years or doing anything much more than just dinking around on the piano for years.

Learning to play this song (for me at least) was a great way to get an education on weird chord structures and dissonance. There are so many parts in that song that sound gorgeous when you hear them, but if you try to play them your head just gives off these weird "This isn't right!" signals.

This piece is a great, easy way to show off. Like, if someone says, "Hey you play the piano? Show me something." and then points to whatever keyed instrument is at hand. Sounds great on different instruments, and is great fun with synth voicings, too!

THANK YOU for posting classical pieces that are NOT Adagio for Strings, Beethoven 7: Allegretto, Clair de Lune and etc. I LOVE that people are listening to classical music, but there are so many pieces out that there just cut right to the depth of your soul. I love all of the above mentioned pieces, but what about the love for Brahms' 3rd Symphony: Mvmt. 3 or his Requiem? Or Schumann's 3rd Symphony? Or Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 Op. 131? This entire quartet reduces me to a crying heap EVERYTIME I hear it. What about Schostakovich's entire 5th Symphony which is one of the most blatant forms of political and personal struggle I've ever heard? There is SO much incredible music out there and it pains me to see the SAME classical pieces used again and again as examples of "great emotional music." Thank you for choosing Part and Heifetz. Wonderful choices.

EDIT: this playlist is set on "collaborative" mode on purpose, so anyone at all can update it and add songs. I made the playlist when this thread had 225 replies, so I shall perhaps let other enterprising individuals update it based on this thread.

Definitely with you here. Little Wing is one of those songs you wish could go on for much longer than it lasts, and I normally hate long, over-indulgent, tangential guitar jams.
(I also love the Hendrix version with vocals. Short and sweet.)

I was just going to post this if no one else had. I absolutely love River Flows in You. Such nostalgic longing, and I don't even have any memories to be nostalgic about relating to this song. It just makes me long for.. something.

EDIT: this playlist is set on "collaborative" mode on purpose, so anyone at all can update it and add songs. I made the playlist when this thread had 225 replies, so I shall perhaps let other enterprising individuals update it based on this thread.

Nine Inch Nails - A warm place. Excellent. Also, The great below but it has vocals. That is my favorite band. I wish someday I could express how much that music has impacted my life to the man that made it.... been listening for 20yrs.... through good and bad... anyway, I hope yo enjoy!